Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Mutability is written upon all things.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.