Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

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 mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The part of life which we really live is short.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.