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

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

There is moderation in everything.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.