No one is wise at all times.
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.