Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.