One Good Man May Take Another's Word,

If Courtezans And Strumpets Were To Be Prosecuted With As Much Rigour As Some Silly People Would Have It, What Locks Or Bars Would Be Sufficient To Preserve The Honour Of Our Wives And Daughters?

They That Examine Into The Nature Of Man, Abstract From Art And Education, May Observe, That What Renders Him A Sociable Animal, Consists Not In His Desire Of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, And Other Graces Of A Fair Outside; But That His Vilest And Most Hateful Qualities Are The Most Necessary Accomplishments To Fit Him For The Largest, And, According To The World, The Happiest And Most Flourishing Societies.

The Only Thing Of Weight That Can Be Said Against Modern Honor Is That It Is Directly Opposite To Religion. The One Bids You Bear Injuries With Patience, The Other Tells You If You Don't Resent Them, You Are Not Fit To Live.

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.

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.