There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak