It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some
secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is
liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of, for the
thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we
can never stand at ease, or lie down in the field of life, without
sentinels of watchfulness and camp-fires of prayer.--_Chapin._
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defense of
her virtue.--_La Fontaine._
When devils will their blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first
with heavenly shows.--_Shakespeare._
The devil tempts us not: it is we tempt him, beckoning his skill with
opportunity.--_George Eliot._