The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.