To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.