Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.