A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.