War should neither be feared nor provoked.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.