Be smart, drink your wine.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

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

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.