We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.