The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.
Youth holds no society with grief.
Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.