Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

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.