Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Where there's music there can be no evil.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.