The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Nothing is ours except time.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.