Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Chance is a second master.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

No one is wise at all times.