“Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.”

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Not a day without a line.

In wine there is health.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

From the end spring new beginnings.

These are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicit

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Many dishes bring many diseases.

Human nature craves novelty.