All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.