Too great haste leads us to error.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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 have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.