The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

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

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.