If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

Man differs more from man than man from beast