The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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.
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.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.