On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.