There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.