Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.