In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

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

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

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

We are all gathered to the same fold.