All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
Deference and intimacy live far apart.