I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.