Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.
Sir Fulke GrevilleVanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.
Sir Fulke GrevilleWhat an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
Sir Fulke Greville