The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.