Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

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

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

There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.