If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.