Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hates our successes.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or a bad memory; of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends until it break; or of a memory that…