Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
A lie is an excuse guarded
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.