Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.