Why be silent about the good qualities, and only pick out the defects?
There is in all that a kind of envy that wounds me--me who read men as I read authors, and who never burden my memory except with things that are good to know and good to imitate.

The conversation between Suard and Madame Le Gendre had been very vivacious.

They sought the reasons why persons of sensibility were so readily, so strongly, so deliciously moved at the story of a good action.

Suard maintained that it was due to a sixth sense that nature had endowed us with, to judge the good and the beautiful.

They pressed to know what I thought of it.