Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

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.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.