The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

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

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

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

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