Knowledge Both Enlarges And Multiplies Our Desires,

Pride And Vanity Have Built More Hospitals Than All The Virtues Together.

One Good Man May Take Another's Word, If They So Agree, But A Whole Nation Ought Never To Trust To Any Honesty, But What Is Built Upon Necessity; For Unhappy Is The People, And Their Constitution Will Be Ever Precarious, Whose Welfare Must Depend Upon The Virtues And Consciences Of Ministers And Politicians.

The First Rudiments Of Morality, Broach'd By Skilful Politicians, To Render Men Useful To Each Other As Well As Tractable, Were Chiefly Contrived That The Ambitious Might Reap The More Benefit From, And Govern Vast Numbers Of Them With The Greater Ease And Security.

I Don't Believe That There Is A Human Creature In His Senses, Arrived To Maturity, That At Some Time Or Other Has Not Been Carried Away By This Passion (sc. Envy) In Good Earnest; Yet I Never Met With Any One Who Dared Own He Was Guilty Of It But In Jest.

Ashamed Of The Many Frailties They Feel Within, All Men Endeavor To Hide Themselves, Their Ugly Nakedness, From Each Other, And Wrapping Up The True Motives Of Their Hearts In The Specious Cloak Of Sociableness, And Their Concern For The Public Good, They Are In Hopes Of Concealing Their Filthy Appetites And The Deformity Of Their Desires.