The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
We are easily duped by those we love.