You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.