Covetousness.—Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.—Shakespeare.
The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardness or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.—Pope.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.—Seneca.
Cowardice.—At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.—Chapin.
Credulity.—Quick believers need broad shoulders.—George Herbert.
Let us believe what we can and hope for the rest.—De Finod.
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.—Joubert.
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.—George Eliot.
Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.—Antishenes.
Action is generally defective, and proves an abortion without previous contemplation. Contemplation generates, action propagates.—Feltham.