Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician, "I am the first of my family, but you are the last of yours" And since his time, those who value themselve… - Charles Caleb Colton

An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife.

A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.