The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Let man be true and every god a liar.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.