Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!

The best is the cheapest.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.