I refute it thus.

We must take our friends as they are.

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it”What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?”Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not...

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to...

His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practiced his own precepts of economy for several years...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.