The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

We are easily duped by those we love.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.