in private life; and fallacies and falsehoods to pass uncontradicted and unexposed, in those channels through which poison is conveyed to the public mind.― SOUTHEY, The Doctor, ch. 96.

Unblushing assertors of falsehood seem to have a race of easy believers provided on purpose for their use: men who will not indeed believe the best-established truths of Religion, but are ready to believe anything else.— ARCHBISHOP WHATELY, Elements of Logic, bk. iii, § 86 note.

See, but to what degree we are come already. Can there any oath be found so fortified by all religious ties, which we easily find not a distinction to break, when either profit or danger persuades us to it? Do we remember any engagements; or if we do, have we any shame to break them? Can any man think with patience upon what we have professed, when he sees what we wildly do, and tamely suffer?-S. TITUS, Killing no Murder, p. 21.

Talk not of the power of truth; it does not subdue those who wilfully and habitually reject it. It did not do so in the days of that primitive revelation which fell gradually into the most hideous corruptions. I know not why it should do so again, in days of keener and more calculated and systematized self-love. - GLADSTONE, The State in its relations with the Church, viii.

It is wonderful how easily people can, without any conscious lying, forget things which they wish to forget. Saturday Review, 20 Nov. 1869.

Those who in England have had much to do with the lower classes, almost universally declare, that where there is a fault to conceal, a falsehood is told without scruple; and even among those who affect to "scorn a lie," deceit and equivocation are generally used. -THE HON. F. J. SHORE, Notes on Indian Affairs.

I am, however, one of those who consider that in the matter of truth and honesty, the Bengalis are neither better nor worse than many nations boasting of a higher civilization and a purer faith, and that they in no degree merit the wholesale condemnation with which they are generally visited by those who write and talk much, and really know very little of them.-DR. F. J. MOUAT, Prison Discipline in Lower Bengal; Statistical Fourn., Mar. 1867.

Experience tells us several things which are not quite to the credit of our race. -A. K. H. B., Autumn Holidays, p. 403.

Trust them, as you will best trust to yourselves; and the best trusting of an other is so to trust him as, if he would deceive, he shall not be able to bring his deceitful intent to pass.-SIR JOHN MASON, Letter; Froude's Hist. of England, ch. xxvii.

Mel in ore, verba lactis,

Fel in corde, fraus in factis.

CLOWES, Treatise for cure of Struma, 1602, p. 55. Show thy art in honesty; and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.-SIR T. BROWNE, Christ. Morals, part I, sect. IV.

All men desire earnestly to have truth on their side: few to be on the side of truth. * * * "Honesty is the best policy" but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.ARCHBISHOP WHATELY, Miscell. Remains, p. 137.

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The great instrument and engine for the carrying on of the commerce and mutual intercourses of the world is Trust, without which there can be no correspondence maintained either between societies or particular persons. And accordingly, being a thing of such general and immediate influence upon the affairs of mankind, there is nothing in the management of which men give such great experiments either of their wisdom or their folly: the whole measure of these being taken by the world, according as it sees men more or less deceived in their transacting with others. Certain it is, that credulity lays a man infinitely open to the abuses and injuries. of crafty persons. And though a strong belief best secures the felicity of the future life, yet it is usually the great bane and supplanter of our happiness in this: there being scarce any man, who arrives to any sound understanding of himself or his own interest, till he comes to be once or twice notably deceived by such an one, of whom he was apt to say and think, according to the common phrase, I would trust my very life with him.-SOUTH, Sermons (Prov. xxviii. 26).

Great principles are at the bottom of all things; but to apply them to daily life, many little rules, precautions, and insights are needed. Such things hold a middle place between real life and principles, as form does between matter and spirit: moulding the one and expressing the other.—SIR A. HELPS, Friends in Council.

We are to consider that the end for which men enter into Society, is not barely to live, which they may do disperst, as other animals, but to live. happily, and a life answerable to the dignity and excellency of their kind. Out of Society this happiness is not to be had; for singly we are impotent and defective, unable to procure those things that are either of necessity or ornament for our lives; and as unable to defend and keep them when they are acquired. To remedy these defects, we associate together, that what we can neither enjoy nor keep singly, by mutual benefits and assistances one of an other, we may be able to do both.

We can not possibly accomplish these ends if we submit not our passions and appetites to the laws of reason and justice. For the depravity of man's will makes him as unfit to live in society, as his necessity makes him unable to live out of it; and if that perverseness be not regulated by laws, men's appetites to the same things, their avarice, their lust, their ambition, would quickly make society as unsafe, or more, than solitude itself; and we should associate only to be nearer our misery and our ruin. That therefore by which we accomplish the ends of

a sociable life, is our subjection and submission to laws; these are the nerves and sinews of every society or Common-wealth, without which they must necessarily dissolve and fall asunder.-S. TITUS, Killing no Murder, p. 9.

For surely nature gives no man a mouth to be always eating, and never saying grace; nor an hand only to grasp, and to receive. But as it is furnished with teeth for the one, so it should have a tongue also for the other; and the hands that are so often reached out to take, and to accept, should be, sometimes, lifted up also to bless. The world is maintained by intercourse; and the whole course of nature is a great Exchange in which one good turn is, and ought to be, the stated price of an other.-SOUTH, Sermons (17 Oct. 1675. Judges viii. 34, 35).

One great end of the institution of public feasts, among all nations in the world, was for the maintaining of unity, love and friendship among the people that lived under the same laws; and for the recreating of those who were tired with their constant labors. And it is the design, we likewise see, of our private feasts; which are times of ease and refreshment for our neighbors, and preserve also good will among them: according to that of Ben Syra, a famous person among the Jews,-Spread the table, and contention ceases. We are all good

friends at a feast. - BISHOP PATRICK, Advice to a Friend, xii.