To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

Let us try what love will do.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

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.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.