To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.