Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.