You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.