Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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

For we put the power in the people.

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.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.