If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.