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.

There is no evil without its compensation.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.