Pride And Vanity Have Built More Hospitals

What A Vast Traffick Is Drove, What A Variety Of Labour Is Performed In The World To The Maintenance Of Thousands Of Families That Altogether Depend On Two Silly If Not Odious Customs; The Taking Of Snuff And Smoking Of Tobacco; Both Which It Is Certain Do Infinitely More Hurt Than Good To Those That Are Addicted To Them!

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.

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.

It Is Visible Then That It Was Not Any Heathen Religion Or Other Idolatrous Superstition, That First Put Man Upon Crossing His Appetites And Subduing His Dearest Inclinations, But The Skilful Management Of Wary Politicians; And The Nearer We Search Into Human Nature, The More We Shall Be Convinced, That The Moral Virtues Are The Political Offspring Which Flattery Begot Upon Pride.

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.