No noble man ever hated good wine.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Machination is worth more than force.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.