It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

All industry must be excited by hope.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.