Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

H. L. Mencken

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Julien Smith

A light heart lives long.

Proverb

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

E. M. Forster

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Henry David Thoreau