it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Names govern the world.