Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.