Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.