To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.