Experience Is A Safe Guide.

Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still.

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.

There Is A Troublesome Humor Some Men Have, That If They May Not Lead, They Will Not Follow; But Had Rather A Thing Were Never Done, Than Not Done Their Own Way, Tho' Other Ways Very Desirable.

Some Are So Very Studious Of Learning What Was Done By The Ancients That They Know Not How To Live With The Moderns.

Eat... To Live, And Do Not Live To Eat.