All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.