People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.