Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

The moon only dares compete with the stars when the sun is in its corner.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.

Every night is a time for drink.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

Freedom has its risks.

Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.