Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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?
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.