Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

He that gives quickly gives twice.