Habitual gamesters regard neither their own health, nor their own personal convenience, but will sit up night after night, though under bodily indisposition, at play, if they can only grasp the object of their pursuit.
From a just and equitable they often render him a dishonest person.
Professed gamesters, it is well known, lie in wait for the young, the ignorant, and the unwary: and they do not hesitate to adopt fraudulent practices to secure them as their prey.

In toxication has been also frequently resorted to for the same purpose.
From humane and merciful they change him into hard hearted and barbarous.

Habitual gamesters have compassion foe neither men nor brutes.

The former they can ruin and leave destitute, without the sympathy of a tear.

The latter they can oppress to death, calculating the various powers of their declining strength, and their capability of enduring pain.
They convert him from an orderly to a disorderly being, and to a disturber of the order of the universe.