We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
The contact of two epidermises.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.