People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.