“VANITY bids all her sons be generous and brave,———-and her daughters chaste and courteous.———-But why do we want her instructions?———-Ask the comedian who is taught a part he feels not———-

Is it that the principles of religion want strength, or that the real passion for what is good and worthy will not carry us high enough———-GOD! thou knowest they carry us too high———-we want not to be,—but to seem——-”

—from a Laurence Sterne sermon, 1764