This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.