It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

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.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

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

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

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.