They are always found wholly insufficient to satisfy one who makes pleasure the whole end and aim of his being.
In the same manner, if, either from the influence of the social institutions of a country, or from the operation of natural causes which human power is unable to control, there is a class of men too low, and degraded, and miserable to be reached by the ordinary inducements to daily toil, so certain are they to grow corrupt and depraved, that degradation has become in all languages a term almost synonymous with vice.

There are many exceptions, it is true, to these general laws.

Many active men are very wicked; and there have been frequent instances of the most exalted virtue among nobles and kings.

Still, as a general law, it is unquestionably true that vice is the incident of idleness; and the sphere of vice, therefore, is at the top and at the bottom of society-- those being the regions in which idleness reigns.

The great remedy, too, for vice is employment.