We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Luck cannot change birth.
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.