One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.