You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
Close your eyes and you will see.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.