True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.