French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

Respect a man, he will do the more.