People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.