Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.