Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.