Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.