We die only once, and for such a long time.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Books and marriage go ill together.
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.