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Contentment Produces, In Some Measure, All Those Effects Which The Alchemist Usually Ascribes To What He Calls The Philosopher's Stone; And If It Does Not Bring Riches, It Does The Same Thing By Banishing The Desire For Them.

A State Of Temperance, Sobriety And Justice Without Devotion Is A Cold, Lifeless, Insipid Condition Of Virtue, And Is Rather To Be Styled Philosophy Than Religion.

Must One Rash Word, The Infirmity Of Age, Throw Down The Merit Of My Better Years?

Wine Displays Every Little Spot Of The Soul In Its Utmost Deformity.

The Hours Of A Wise Man Are Lengthened By His Ideas.