The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.