Above all, do not lie to yourself.
What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.