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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Love is only one of many passions.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.