They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

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

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.