Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

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

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.