Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

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

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

Better do nothing than do ill.

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.