The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
It is a long road from conception to completion.
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.