"Better to be silent than to speak ill."

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."

"It is a most miserable thing to be a slave to one's own desires."

"There are some people who, if they don't get a little drunk, say nothing at all worth hearing."

"To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with truth, his memory with useful facts, his future with hope, and his stomach with food."