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.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Man is a reasoning Animal.