Victor Galinskiy

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. I row after health like a waterman... I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. May you live all the days of your life. No wise man ever wished to be younger. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.