Occupation: Author Birth: 23 Death: August 25, 79
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 ….
Hope is a working-man's dream..
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth..
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment..
War should neither be feared nor provoked..
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citad….
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life..
We live by reposing trust in each other..
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it..
The brain is the citadel of sense perception..
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia fir….
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle..
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb..
Many dishes bring many diseases..
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep..
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming..
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….
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….
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it..
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line..
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred..