Hope Is The Belief, More Or Less

In Composing, As A General Rule, Run Your Pen Through Every Other Word You Have Written; You Have No Idea What Vigor It Will Give Your Style.

Oh, Don't Tell Me Of Facts, I Never Believe Facts; You Know, [george] Canning Said Nothing Was So Fallacious As Facts, Except Figures.

When I Hear Any Man Talk Of An Unalterable Law, The Only Effect It Produces On Me Is To Convince Me That He Is An Unalterable Fool

Have The Courage To Be Ignorant Of A Great Number Of Things, In Order To Avoid The Calamity Of Being Ignorant Of Everything.

The Longer I Live, The More I Am Convinced That The Apothecary Is Of More Importance Than Seneca; And That Half The Unhappiness In The World Proceeds From Little Stoppages; From A Duct Choked Up, From Food Pressing In The Wrong Place, From A Vexed Duodenum, Or An Agitated Pylorus.