if the spirits of the brain be fuzzled or misaffected by such means at such a time, their children will be fuzzled in the brain

But unquestionably the most atrabiliary of the men of letters whom I knew in Paris at that time was [Nicolas] Chamfort. Attacked with the disorder that produced the Jacobins, he was unable to forgive mankind for the accident of his birth.

Oh my God, I got cheap tickets to the Beyoncé concert! I can’t even!

He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.