We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.