And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Half talent is no talent.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.