How Sweet And Sacred Idleness Is!

Fleas Know Not Whether They Are Upon The Body Of A Giant Or Upon One Of Ordinary Size.

Even The Weakest Disputant Is Made So Conceited By What He Calls Religion, As To Think Himself Wiser Than The Wisest Who Thinks Differently From Him.

Be Assured That, Although Men Of Eminent Genius Have Been Guilty Of All Other Vices, None Worthy Of More Than A Secondary Name Has Ever Been A Gamester. Either An Excess Of Avarice Or A Deficiency Of What, In Physics, Is Called Excitability, Is The Cause Of It; Neither Of Which Can Exist In The Same Bosom With Genius, With Patriotism, Or With Virtue.

I Warmed Both Hands Before The Fire Of Life; It Sinks, And I Am Ready To Depart.

Great Men Too Often Have Greater Faults Than Little Men Can Find Room For.