Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.