It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.