You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Cleverness is not wisdom.