Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.