We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

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.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.