They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.