He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Take time for all things.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

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 spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.