People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

Wine unlocks the breast.

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.