~Honesty.~--If he does really think that there is no distinction between
virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our
spoons.--_Johnson._
Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale
in goodness.--_Sir T. Browne._
Refined policy has ever been the parent of confusion, and ever will be
so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as
easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last,
is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine
simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.--_Burke._
Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good
conscience never costs as much as it is worth.--_J. Petit Senn._