“Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.”
“Ambition...the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit”
“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”
“Who makes the fairest show means the most deceit.”
“Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world if treachery and deceit.”