A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.