People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
From Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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