Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.