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

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

A good example is the best sermon.

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.