Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line..

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it..

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 t….

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred..

The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticini….

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the sen….

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming..

In wine, there's truth..

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

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

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides..

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess..

Home is where the heart is..

Nothing is so unequal as equality..

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures..

Truth comes out in wine..

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils..

No book so bad but some part may be of use..

Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of s….

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs..

There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together ….