Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.