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.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.