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.

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

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.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?