Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

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

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.