“The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.”

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.

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.

The happier the moment the shorter.

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.

Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.