“America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter
“We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough
“Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in
“Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement
“We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it