It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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.
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.