One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.