Aphorisms

It is sweet to play the fool on occasion.

They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always come back.

Every failure teaches a man something. For example, that he will probably fail again next time.

We should desire few things ardently if we knew perfectly what we desire.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world saw all the motives that produce them.

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

Pocket: the cradle of motive and the grave of conscience.

Economy: purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.