Tears are sometimes the happiest smiles of love.—Stendhal.
Tediousness.—The sin of excessive length.—Shirley.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.—Shakespeare.
Teeth.—Teeth like falling snow for white.—Cowley.
Such a pearly row of teeth that sovereignty would have pawned her jewels for them.—Sterne.
Temperance.—Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.—Franklin.
I consider the temperance cause the foundation of all social and political reform.—Cobden.
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.—Horace Mann.
Temperance to be a virtue must be free and not forced. Virtue may be defended, as vice may be withstood, by a statute, but no virtue is or can be created by a law, any more than by a battering ram a temple or obelisk can be reared.—Bartol.
If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors.—Sydney Smith.