At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.