If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.