unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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?
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.