A Good Heart Will, At All Times,

Affectation Proceeds From One Of These Two Causes,--vanity Or Hypocrisy; For As Vanity Puts Us On Affecting False Characters, In Order To Purchase Applause; So Hypocrisy Sets Us On An Endeavor To Avoid Censure, By Concealing Our Vices Under An Appearance Of Their Opposite Virtues.

The Man Who Is Wantonly Profuse Of His Promises Ought To Sink His Credit As Much As A Tradesman Would By Uttering A Great Number Of Promissory Notes Payable At A Distant Day. The Truest Conclusion In Both Cases Is, That Neither Intend Or Will Be Able To Pay. And As The Latter Most Probably Intends To Cheat You Of Your Money, So The Former At Least Designs To Cheat You Of Your Thanks.

Habit Hath So Vast A Prevalence Over The Human Mind That There Is Scarce Anything Too Strange Or Too Strong To Be Asserted Of It. The Story Of The Miser Who, From Long Accustoming To Cheat Others, Came At Last To Cheat Himself, And With Great Delight And Triumph Picked His Own Pocket Of A Guinea To Convey To His Hoard, Is Not Impossible Or Improbable.

In The Forming Of Female Friendships Beauty Seldom Recommends One Woman To Another.

These Are Called The Pious Frauds Of Friendship.