Never Put Much Confidence In Such As

Since The Generality Of Persons Act From Impulse, Much More Than From Principle, Men Are Neither So Good Nor So Bad As We Are Apt To Think Them.

A Mother Should Give Her Children A Superabundance Of Enthusiasm; That After They Have Lost All They Are Sure To Lose On Mixing With The World, Enough May Still Remain To Prompt Fated Support Them Through Great Actions.

Many Are Ambitious Of Saying Grand Things, That Is, Of Being Grandiloquent.

Crimes Sometimes Shock Us Too Much; Vices Almost Always Too Little.

Never Put Much Confidence In Such As Put No Confidence In Others. A Man Prone To Suspect Evil Is Mostly Looking In His Neighbor For What He Sees In Himself. As To The Pure All Things Are Pure, Even So To The Impure All Things Are Impure.