The Things We Pray For, Good Lord,

By Reason Of Gifts And Bribes The Offices Be Given To Rich Men, Which Should Rather Have Been Executed By Wise Men.

What Though Youth Gave Love And Roses, Age Still Leaves Us Friends And Wine

It's Wrong To Deprive Someone Else Of A Pleasure So That You Can Enjoy One Yourself, But To Deprive Yourself Of A Pleasure So That You Can Add To Someone Else's Enjoyment Is An Act Of Humanity By Which You Always Gain More Than You Lose.

Sex And Religion Are Closer To Each Other Than Either Might Prefer.

The Education Of Youth Belongs To The Priests, Yet They Do Not Take So Much Care Of Instructing Them In Letters, As In Forming Their Minds And Manners Aright; They Use All Possible Methods To Infuse, Very Early, Into The Tender And Flexible Minds Of Children, Such Opinions As Are Both Good In Themselves And Will Be Useful To Their Country, For When Deep Impressions Of These Things Are Made At That Age, They Follow Men Through The Whole Course Of Their Lives, And Conduce Much To Preserve The Peace Of The Government, Which Suffers By Nothing More Than By Vices That Rise Out Of Ill Opinions.