Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress

Adversity is the first path to truth He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth

Adversity is the first path to truth

Man being reasonable must get drunk The best of life is but intoxication Glory, the grape, love, gold in these are sunk The hopes of all men and of every nation

Absence - that common cure of love

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth but actions are our epochs

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

The lapse of ages changes all things time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself