The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.