There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.