Principle is a passion for truth.
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.