True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

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.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.