The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest, motive to virtue.

The clashing interests of society, and the double, yet equal and contrary demands arising out of them, where duty and justice are constantly opposed to gratitu…