The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.