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

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

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

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.