Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
But it is not reason that governs love.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.