Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. - Joseph Addison

Then she is beautiful beyond the Race of Women; if you won't let her go on with a certain Artifice with her eyes, and the Skill of Beauty, she will arm her self with her real Charms, and strike you with Admiration instead of Desire.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.