Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.