Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.