When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.