False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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.
Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.