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

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

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

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

Human nature craves novelty.

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