The appetite grows with eating.

The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

A bellyful is a bellyful.