Pride And Vanity Have Built More Hospitals

Pride And Vanity Have Built More Hospitals Than All The Virtues Together.

It Is Visible Then That It Was Not Any Heathen Religion Or Other Idolatrous Superstition, That First Put Man Upon Crossing His Appetites And Subduing His Dearest Inclinations, But The Skilful Management Of Wary Politicians; And The Nearer We Search Into Human Nature, The More We Shall Be Convinced, That The Moral Virtues Are The Political Offspring Which Flattery Begot Upon Pride.

The Only Thing Of Weight That Can Be Said Against Modern Honor Is That It Is Directly Opposite To Religion. The One Bids You Bear Injuries With Patience, The Other Tells You If You Don't Resent Them, You Are Not Fit To Live.

The Multitude Will Hardly Believe The Excessive Force Of Education, And In The Difference Of Modesty Between Men And Women, Ascribe That To Nature, Which Is Altogether Owing To Early Instruction: Miss Is Scarce Three Years Old, But She's Spoke To Every Day To Hide Her Leg, And Rebuked In Good Earnest If She Shows It; Whilst Little Master At The Same Age Is Bid To Take Up His Coats, And Piss Like A Man.

What A Vast Traffick Is Drove, What A Variety Of Labour Is Performed In The World To The Maintenance Of Thousands Of Families That Altogether Depend On Two Silly If Not Odious Customs; The Taking Of Snuff And Smoking Of Tobacco; Both Which It Is Certain Do Infinitely More Hurt Than Good To Those That Are Addicted To Them!