"Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or..." — William Cobbett

The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.

Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.

To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.