Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

Lost time is never found again.

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.