Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!