Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

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.

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.