Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.