Do what you should, not what you may.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

No evil is without its compensation.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.