Be Ashamed To Catch Yourself Idle.

Be Temperate In Wine, In Eating, Girls, & Sloth; Or The Gout Will Seize You And Plague You Both.

Order - Let All Your Things Have Their Places; Let Each Part Of Your Business Have Its Time.

Strange Secrets Are Let Out By Death Who Blabs So Oft The Follies Of This World.

At Twenty Years Of Age The Will Reigns; At Thirty, The Wit; And At Forty, The Judgment.

In Reality, There Is, Perhaps, No One Of Our Natural Passions So Hard To Subdue As Pride. Disguise It, Struggle With It, Beat It Down, Stifle It, Mortify It As Much As One Pleases, It Is Still Alive, And Will Every Now And Then Peep Out And Show Itself; You Will See It, Perhaps, Often In This History; For, Even If I Could Conceive That I Had Completely Overcome It, I Should Probably Be Proud Of My Humility.