Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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.
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Our civilization depends largely on paper.