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

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room for obvious reasons; however, I just want to sit and indulge.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.

For I love to indulge the contemplation of human nature in a progressive state of improvement and melioration: and if the idea would not be considered as visionary and chimerical, I could fondly hope that the present plan of the great Potentate of the North [Catherine the Great], might, in some measure, lay the foundation for that assimilation of language, which, producing assimilation of manners and interests, should one day remove many of the causes of hostility from amongst mankind.

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.