Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

The proof of the pudding is the eating.