Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.