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

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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.

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.

The smallest errors are always the best.