Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.