True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

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.

Home is where the heart is.

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.