Things are only worth what you make them worth.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.