A Wonder Lasts But Nine

Scarcely One Person In A Thousand Is Capable Of Tasting The Happiness Of Others.

Affectation Proceeds From One Of These Two Causes,--vanity Or Hypocrisy; For As Vanity Puts Us On Affecting False Characters, In Order To Purchase Applause; So Hypocrisy Sets Us On An Endeavor To Avoid Censure, By Concealing Our Vices Under An Appearance Of Their Opposite Virtues.

What Is Commonly Called Love, Namely The Desire Of Satisfying A Voracious Appetite With A Certain Quantity Of Delicate White Human Flesh.

A Good Heart Will, At All Times, Betray The Best Head In The World.

We Endeavor To Conceal Our Vices Under The Disguise Of The Opposite Virtues.