Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
A woman always has her revenge ready.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.