There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.