Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.