Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.