And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Books and marriage go ill together.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.