Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

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?

Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.