Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Better do nothing than do ill.

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Truth comes out in wine.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.