There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.