As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall and increases but to decay.

More company increases happiness but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Since taking office President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

When one gets in bed with government one must expect the diseases it spreads.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.