Deference and intimacy live far apart.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.