Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.