Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

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.

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.