Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

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

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.