“One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.”

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

Fighting men are the city’s fortress.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

Brave men are a city’s strongest tower of defence.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.