Our Probity Is Not Less At The

Taste May Change, But Inclination Never.

We Often Make Use Of Envenomed Praise, That Reveals On The Rebound, As It Were, Defects In Those Praised Which We Dare Not Exposeany Other Way.

Decency Is The Least Of All Laws, But Yet It Is The Law Which Is Most Strictly Observed.

We Do Not Lack Strength So Much As The Will To Use It; And Very Often Our Imagining That Things Are Impossible Is Nothing But An Excuse Of Our Own Contriving, To Reconcile Ourselves To Our Own Idleness.

A Weak Mind Is The Only Defect Out Of Our Power To Mend.