The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.
'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.