The internet quote database

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. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

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

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

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