Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

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.