If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.