Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.