Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.