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.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.