It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

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.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.