Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices,

Since An Intelligence Common To Us All Makes Things Known To Us And Formulates Them In Our Minds, Honorable Actions Are Ascribed By Us To Virtue, And Dishonorable Actions To Vice; And Only A Madman Would Conclude That These Judgments Are Matters Of Opinion, And Not Fixed By Nature.

You May Never Be Less Alone Than When You Are Alone.

For One Day Spent Well, And Agreeably To Your Precepts, Is Preferable To An Eternity Of Error.

Were Floods Of Tears To Be Unloosed In Tribute To My Grief, The Doves Of Noah Ne'er Had Roost Nor Found An Olive-leaf.

It Is A Great Thing To Know Your Vices.