All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.