All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

How easy love makes fools of us.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.