Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.