The Wisdom Of Our Ancestors.

Nothing In Progression Can Rest On Its Original Plan. We May As Well Think Of Rocking A Grown Man In The Cradle Of An Infant.

Flattery Corrupts Both The Receiver And The Giver; And Adulation Is Not Of More Service To The People Than To Kings.

Vice Itself Lost Half Its Evil, By Losing All Its Grossness.

Religion Is The Basis Of Civil Society, And The Source Of All Good And Of All Comfort.

And Having Looked To Government For Bread, On The Very First Scarcity They Will Turn And Bite The Hand That Fed Them.