Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!