Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

Man is a gaming animal.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.