Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.