There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.