There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Be just before you're generous.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them-no-I make it a rule never to look into a new…

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Fervent bella horrida, fervent ossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armis non simplex natura hominis.

1. Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph. 2. Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. 3. Laughter is the b…