It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

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

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

In wine, there's truth.

The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.