Time is the wisest of all counselors.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.