You can't make a dishonest thing honest because a majority choose to do itat least I do not believe that morality is purely a matter of majorities, or that the dishonour of one century can become the honour of the next.

Dishonour to the Gentleman and Bankruptcy to the Trader, are the Portion of either whose chief Purpose of Life is Delight.

" "Let not these considerations afflict you: 'I shall live despised, and the merest nobody;' for if dishonour be an evil, you cannot be involved in evil any more than you can be involved in baseness through any one else's means.