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

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.