Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.