Ability without honor has no value.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.