“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”
Thomas De Quincey
3 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“The great art of life is to play for a long time, but to play for a small stake.”
“Books, we know, are a substantial world, both in themselves and in their relations.”