The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.