As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

Music and Wine are one.

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

We find in life exactly what we put into it

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.