Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

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

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.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.