To Love, and be in Love different.
To Love, and to be in Love with any thing, are Things as differing, as good Sense and Impertinence.
When we once go beyond bare liking, we are in danger of parting with Good-Sense; and it is not easy for Good-Sense to get so far as liking.
Lucre.
When by habit a Man cometh to have a bargaining Soul, its Wings are cut, so that it can never soar.
It bindeth Reason an Apprentice to Gain, and instead of a Director, maketh it a Drudge.
Lying.
The being kind to a Lyar, is abetting a Treason against Mankind.
A Man is to inform the first Magistrate, that he may be clap’d up.
Lies are embroidered with Promises and Excuses.