Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.