Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

Speech is the index of the mind.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Do what you should, not what you may.

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.