“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”
“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
“Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.”
“I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.”
“Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.”
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”