Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.