It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

Wine is bottled poetry.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.