We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.