As many suffer from too much as too little.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.