For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]

Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.

God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another