Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Music and Wine are one.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.