Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.