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.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.