Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

We live by reposing trust in each other.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

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

Truth comes out in wine.

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