It is not loving Honesty enough to allow it distinguishing Privileges.
There are some decent Faults which may pretend to be in the lower Rank of Virtues; and surely where Honour or Gratitude are the Motives, Censure must be a good deal silenced.
Of Caution and Suspicion.
Men must be saved in this World by their Want of Faith.
A Man that getteth Care into his Thoughts, cannot properly be said to trade without a Stock.
Care and right Thought will produce Crops all the Year without staying for the Seasons.
A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.
He that relieth upon himself will be oppressed by others with Offers of their Service.
All are apt to shrink from those that lean upon them.
If Men would think how often their own Words are thrown at their Heads, they would less often let them go out of their Mouths.