All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.