Richard CumberlandThinkers

Adam and Eve is just like all other humans, save for the fact that they had no belly buttons, for they were not born, but made.

Busyness is good — it is better to wear out than to rust out.

Gambling is suicide the moment one takes the dice-box to hand, and time is only sharpening the dagger before he strikes it to his heart.

Hard work is good — it is better to wear out than to rust out.

Hard work is good — It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Politeness is nothing more than an elegant and concealed species of flattery, tending to put the person to whom it is addressed in good humor and respect with himself.

Pride is never more offensive than when it condescends to be civil ; whereas vanity, whenever it forgets itself, naturally assumes good-humor.