Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

I drink to make other people seem more interesting.