Judgment Is Not Upon All Occasions Required,

Cottages Have Them (falsehood And Dissimulation) As Well As Courts, Only With Worse Manners.

Statesmen And Beauties Are Very Rarely Sensible Of The Gradations Of Their Decay.

Keep Your Hands Clean And Pure From The Infamous Vice Of Corruption, A Vice So Infamous That It Degrades Even The Other Vices Thatmay Accompany It. Accept No Present Whatever; Let Your Character In That Respect Be Transparent And Without The Least Speck, For As Avarice Is The Vilest And Dirtiest Vice In Private, Corruption Is So In Public Life.

If Ever A Man And His Wife, Or A Man And His Mistress, Who Pass Nights As Well As Days Together, Absolutely Lay Aside All Good Breeding, Their Intimacy Will Soon Degenerate Into A Coarse Familiarity, Infallibly Productive Of Contempt Or Disgust.

The Possibility Of Remedying Imprudent Actions Is Commonly An Inducement To Commit Them.