Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.—Bulwer-Lytton.
Deceit.—No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.—Hawthorne.
Idiots only may be cozened twice.—Dryden.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.—Fontaine.
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.—Chapin.
Like unto golden hooks that from the foolish fish their baits do hide.—Spenser.
Libertines are hideous spiders that often catch pretty butterflies.—Diderot.
Decency.—As beauty of body, with an agreeable carriage, pleases the eye, and that pleasure consists in that we observe all the parts with a certain elegance are proportioned to each other; so does decency of behavior which appears in our lives obtain the approbation of all with whom we converse, from the order, consistency, and moderation of our words and actions.—Steele.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.—Tully.
Declamation.—Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions, or musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious; where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.—Goldsmith.