Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated - everlasting farewells!

Books, we are told, propose to instruct" or to amuse." Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure," but power.

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.