Health consists with temperance alone.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.