We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.