It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

In everything the middle road is best.