The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

Human nature craves novelty.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.