Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.