Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.
Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.