To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,—­this is the mark and character of intelligence.  —­Emerson.

Intemperance.—­A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge, or claret and ignorance.—­Dr. Johnson.

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.—­John B. Gough.

Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.—­Jeremy Taylor.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.—­Atterbury.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.  Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright:  at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.—­Proverbs 23:29-32.

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!—­Shakespeare.

I never drink.  I cannot do it, on equal terms with others.  It costs them only one day; but me three,—­the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.—­Sterne.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one’s mind is to cure melancholy by madness.—­Charron.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.  —­Walter Scott.

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.—­Junius.

Sinners, hear and consider; if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.—­Baxter.

The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes.  And were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask, respecting a candidate for office would be, “Does he use ardent spirits?”—­Jefferson.

Jealousy.—­People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable.—­Barnes.

It is with jealousy as with the gout.  When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.  —­Fielding.

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her.—­Helps.