Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.