"Negligence
Fit for a fool to fall by,"

when he gives Henry the wrong packet; but the Cardinal was quite
mistaken. That kind of negligence was just the thing of which far-
seeing and thoughtful men are capable; and which, if there were no
higher motive, should induce them to rely on truth alone. A very
close vulpine nature, all eyes, all ears, may succeed better in
deceit. But it is a sleepless business. Yet, strange to say, it is
had recourse to in the most spendthrift fashion, as the first and
easiest thing that comes to hand.

In connection with truth in business, it may be observed that if you
are a truthful man, you should be watchful over those whom you
employ; for your subordinate agents are often fond of lying for your
interests, as they think. Show them at once that you do not think
with them, and that you will disconcert any of their inventions by
breaking in with the truth. If you suffer the fear of seeming
unkind to prevent your thrusting well-meant inventions aside, you
may get as much pledged to falsehoods as if you had coined and
uttered them yourself.

5. Truth in pleasure. Men have been said to be sincere in their
pleasures; but this is only that the taste and habits of men are
more easily discernible in pleasure than in business. The want of
truth is as great a hindrance to the one as to the other. Indeed,
there is so much insincerity and formality in the pleasurable
department of human life, especially in social pleasures, that
instead of a bloom there is a slime upon it, which deadens and