Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.