Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
The itch of scribbling.
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.