Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. - Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Gentlemen, the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman, who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of contest, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Custom reconciles us to every thing.