A Matter of Conscience It is no doubt very wrong to long after a naughty thing.

But nevertheless we all do so.

One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.

When we confess that we are all sinners, we confess that we all long after naughty things.

And ambition is a great vice--as Mark Anthony told us a long time ago--a great vice, no doubt, if the ambition of the man be with reference to his own advancement, and not to the advancement of others.