We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
Man have to have friends even in hell.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.