Virtue, Though She Gets Her Beginning From

For Comic Writers Charge Socrates With Making The Worse Appear The Better Reason.

Minds That Are Stupid And Incapable Of Science Are In The Order Of Nature To Be Regarded As Monsters And Other Extraordinary Phenomena; Minds Of This Sort Are Rare. Hence I Conclude That There Are Great Resources To Be Found In Children, Which Are Suffered To Vanish With Their Years. It Is Evident, Therefore, That It Is Not Of Nature, But Of Our Own Negligence, We Ought To Complain.

Sayings Designed To Raise A Laugh Are Generally Untrue And Never Complimentary. Laughter Is Never Far Removed From Derision.

Ambition Is A Vice, But It May Be The Father Of Virtue.

The Mind Is Exercised By The Variety And Multiplicity Of The Subject Matter, While The Character Is Moulded By The Contemplation Of Virtue And Vice.