Pride, Which Inspires Us With

A Man Often Thinks He Rules Himself, When All The While He Is Ruled And Managed; And While His Understanding Directs One Design, His Affections Imperceptibly Draw Him Into Another.

Some Crimes Get Honor And Renown By Being Committed With More Pomp, By A Greater Number, And In A Higher Degree Of Wickedness Thanothers. Hence It Is That Public Robberies, Plunderings, And Sackings Have Been Looked Upon As Excellencies And Noble Achievements, And The Seizing Of Whole Countries, However Unjustly And Barbarously, Is Dignified With The Glorious Name Of Gaining Conquests.

It Is A Wearisome Disease To Preserve Health By Too Strict A Regimen.

Minds Of Moderate Caliber Ordinarily Condemn Everthing Which Is Beyond Their Range.

There Are But Very Few Men Clever Enough To Know All The Mischief They Do.