If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.