All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.