The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.