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

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Take time for all things.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.