Be smart, drink your wine.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.