We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.