Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

One may be humble out of pride.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.