Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or a bad memory; of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends until it break; or of a memory that…

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision, and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.