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.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.