There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?