If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Tobacco is the tomb of love.
Life is to short to be small.