The mind can make / Substance, and people planets of its own, / With beings brighter than have been, and give / A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

And glory, like the phoenix midst her fires, / Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

Suspicion is a heavy armour, and / With its own weight impedes more than it protects.

For man, to man so oft unjust, / Is always so to women; one sole bond / Awaits them, treachery is all their trust.Then dressing, nursing, praying, and all's over.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter--sermons and soda water the day after.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

First and passionate love, it stands alone, like Adams recollection of his fall.

In her first passion woman loves her lover, / In all the others, all she loves is love.

One who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man without his vices.

Man being reasonable must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.