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

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.