[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

I have the knack of easing scruples.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Books and marriage go ill together.