Pride Never Sleeps. The Principle At Least

Small Habits Well Pursued Betimes May Reach The Dignity Of Crimes.

After All That Corrupt Poets, And More Corrupt Philosophers, Have Told Us Of The Blandishments Of Pleasure, And Of Its Tendency To Soften The Temper And Humanize The Affections, It Is Certain, That Nothing Hardens The Heart Like Excessive And Unbounded Luxury; And He Who Refuses The Fewest Gratifications To His Own Voluptuousness, Will Generally Be Found The Least Susceptible Of Tenderness For The Wants Of Others.

Those Who Want Nothing Are Apt To Forget How Many There Are Who Want Every Thing.

No Adulation; 'tis The Death Of Virtue; Who Flatters, Is Of All Mankind The Lowest Save He Who Courts The Flattery.

Sweet Is The Breath Of Praise When Given By Those Whose Own High Merit Claims The Praise They Give.