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?

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.