The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.