“The happier the moment the shorter.”

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

The only certainty is uncertainty

Better do nothing than do ill.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

There’s something really interesting about that as a trend, that whole idea of lifestyle and being happy in your surroundings.

No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious.

I just knew how to smile.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz,

It’s a very happy productive place.

As an actor, I just like to make people happy, make them laugh. That’s our job, to entertain, and if I’m entertaining you folks, then I’m happy.

And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.

The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That’s good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying.