There is always something new out of Africa.

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.

Chance is a second master.

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

From the end spring new beginnings.

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.