Commonplace Minds Usually Condemn What

Idleness And Constancy Fix The Mind To What It Finds Easy And Agreeable. This Habit Always Confines And Cramps Up Our Knowledge; And No One Has Ever Taken The Trouble To Stretch And Carry His Understanding As Far As It Could Go.

Those Who Are Incapable Of Committing Great Crimes Do Not Readily Suspect Them In Others.

The Virtues And Vices Are All Put In Motion By Interest.

Opportunity Makes Us Known To Others, But More To Ourselves.

Vanity, Shame, And Above All Disposition, Often Make Men Brave And Women Chaste.