The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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.