One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.