Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.