A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.