What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.