Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he read more

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
[Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse read more

No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
[Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto
Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient read more

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.
[Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.
[Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always read more

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not
how to return one.
[Lat., read more

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not
how to return one.
[Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et
reddere nescit.]