The vices of others we have before our eyes, our own are behind our backs. - Vicesimus Knox

God commands (people) to maintain justice, kindness, and proper relations with their relatives. He forbids them to commit indecency, sin, and rebellion.

All sensible people agree in thinking that large seminaries of young ladies, though managed with all the vigilance and caution which human abilities can exert, are in danger of great corruption.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.