Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.