Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Handsome is that handsome does.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.