What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.

And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.