You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.