The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.