In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.