Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.