A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.