The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.