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.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

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.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.