Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.