The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings
Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. – Josh Billings

The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings
Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. – Josh Billings
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. – Josh Billings
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it… – George Santayana, “Chapter VIII: Prerational Morality,” The Life of Reason: Volu