A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).