No Habit Or Quality Is More Easily

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.

No Habit Or Quality Is More Easily Acquired Than Hypocrisy, Nor Any Thing Sooner Learned Than To Deny The Sentiments Of Our Hearts And The Principle We Act From: But The Seeds Of Every Passion Are Innate To Us, And Nobody Comes Into The World Without Them.

Because Impudence Is A Vice, It Does Not Follow That Modesty Is A Virtue; It Is Built Upon Shame, A Passion In Our Nature, And May Be Either Good Or Bad According To The Actions Performed From That Motive.

Those Who Get Their Living By Their Daily Labor . . . Have Nothing To Stir Them Up To Be Serviceable But Their Wants Which It Is A Prudence To Relieve, But Folly To Cure.

There Is No Intrinsic Worth In Money But What Is Alterable With The Times, And Whether A Guinea Goes For Twenty Pounds Or For A Shilling, It Is The Labor Of The Poor And Not The High And Low Value That Is Set On Gold Or Silver, Which All The Comforts Of Life Must Arise From.