No sober person dances.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.