One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

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.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Too great haste leads us to error.