All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.

As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?

You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.