We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

Idling has always been my strong point.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.