Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.