How Strange It Is To See With

People Can Be Induced To Swallow Anything, Provided It Is Sufficiently Seasoned With Praise.

I Have The Fault Of Being A Little More Sincere Than Is Proper.

Perfect Good Sense Shuns All Extremity, Content To Couple Wisdom With Sobriety.

What! Would You Make No Distinction Between Hypocrisy And Devotion? Would You Give Them The Same Names, And Respect The Mask As You Do The Face? Would You Equate Artifice And Sincerity? Confound Appearance With Truth? Regard The Phantom As The Very Person? Value Counterfeit As Cash?

Reasoning Is The Pastime Of My Whole Household, And All This Reasoning Has Driven Out Reason.