All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.