These poor gentlemen endeavor to gain themselves the reputation of wits
and humorists, by such monstrous conceits as almost qualify them for
bedlam; not considering that humor should always lie under the check of
reason, and that it requires the direction of the nicest judgment, by so
much the more as it indulges itself in the most boundless
freedoms.--_Addison._
~Hyperbole.~--Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless
imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable,
cannot rest satisfied with hyperbole.--_Bruyere._
Let us have done with reproaching; for we may throw out so many
reproachful words on one another that a ship of a hundred oars would not
be able to carry the load.--_Homer._
~Hypocrisy.~--Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting
to him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy.--_Jeremy
Taylor._
Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass
for virtue.--_Moliere._
Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice: it wears
the livery of religion, and is cautious of giving scandal.--_Swift._