Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.