What Is Called Liberality Is Often Merely

It May Be Said That The Vices Await Us In The Journey Of Life Like Hosts With Whom We Must Successively Lodge; And I Doubt Whether Experience Would Make Us Avoid Them If We Were To Travel The Same Road A Second Time.

We Are Never So Easily Deceived As When We Imagine We Are Deceiving Others.

We Own Up To Minor Failings, But Only So As To Convince Others That We Have No Major Ones.

Tis A Sort Of Coquetry To Boast That We Never Coquet.

It Is A Mighty Error To Suppose That None But Violent And Strong Passions, Such As Love And Ambition, Are Able To Vanquish The Rest. Even Idleness, As Feeble And Languishing As It Is, Sometimes Reigns Over Them; It Usurps The Throne And Sits Paramount Over All The Designs And Actions Of Our Lives, And Imperceptibly Wastes And Destroys All Our Passions And All Our Virtues.