| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Alcohol | Of the demonstrably wise, there are but two: those who commit suicide and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.
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| Blessings | Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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| Fleas | So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
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| Genius | When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
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| Happiness | Happiness is the perpetual possesion of being well deceived.
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| Law | Laws are like cobwebs, which catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through.
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| Law | Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, a harpy that devours everything.
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| Religion | I never saw, heard, or read that the clery were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.
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| Religion | We have just enought religion to hate, but not enought to love one another.
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