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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst.

When rogues like these To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, ask no place, For such preferment is disgrace.

At length corruption, like a general flood , Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima.

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. - Theodore Roosevelt,