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.

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

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.