Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

I can't live without you or with you.

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.