It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider and fermented liquors.  Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?—­Sydney Smith.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.—­Burton.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.  —­Sir Walter Raleigh.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.—­John Neal.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.—­Fuller.

If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors.—­Sydney Smith.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.—­Shakespeare.

Temptation.—­’Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.  —­Shakespeare.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.—­Spurgeon.

If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat.—­Richter.

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.—­Dryden.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.  —­J.Q.  Adams.

When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out long.—­Bishop Wilson.

We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or draw temptations upon us.  Such forwardness is not resolution, but rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an overdaring presumption.—­King.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor. 
—­Pope.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.—­William Penn.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.—­Matthew 26:41.

Thought.—­Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.—­Abbe RAYNAL.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.—­Colton.

Our brains are seventy year clocks.  The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection.—­Holmes.

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 
—­Wordsworth.

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.—­Robert Hall.