What's Vice Today May Be Virtue, Tomorrow.

O Vanity, How Little Is Thy Force Acknowledged Or Thy Operations Discerned! How Wantonly Dost Thou Deceive Mankind Under Different Disguises! Sometimes Thou Dost Wear The Face Of Pity; Sometimes Of Generosity; Nay, Thou Hast The Assurance To Put On Those Glorious Ornaments Which Belong Only To Heroic Virtue.

There Is A Sort Of Knowledge Beyond The Power Of Learning To Bestow, And This Is To Be Had In Conversation; So Necessary Is This To The Understanding The Characters Of Men, That None Are More Ignorant Of Them Than Those Learned Pedants Whose Lives Have Been Entirely Consumed In Colleges And Among Books; For However Exquisitely Human Nature May Have Been Described By Writers The True Practical System Can Be Learned Only In The World.

Though We May Sometimes Unintentionally Bestow Our Beneficence On The Unworthy, It Does Not Take From The Merit Of The Act. For Charity Doth Not Adopt The Vices Of Its Objects.

Good Writers Will, Indeed, Do Well To Imitate The Ingenious Traveller. . .who Always Proportions His Stay In Any Place.

A Rich Man Without Charity Is A Rogue; And Perhaps It Would Be No Difficult Matter To Prove That He Is Also A Fool.