Home is where the heart is.

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

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.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

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.