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

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 forfe…

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

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