There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.