To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.