The Multitude Will Hardly Believe The Excessive

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.

People Of Substance May Sin Without Being Exposed For Their Stolen Pleasure; But Servants And The Poorer Sort Of Women Have Seldom An Opportunity Of Concealing A Big Belly, Or At Least The Consequences Of It.

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.

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.

Knowledge Both Enlarges And Multiplies Our Desires, And The Fewer Things A Man Wishes For, The More Easily His Necessities May Be Supply'd.