A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.