"Good wine is a good familiar creature..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.”

“Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.”

“Art made tongue-tied by authority.”

“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”

“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”

“They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”

“Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!”

“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”

“Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.”