They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.