However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.