Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.