It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.