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.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

Birth is nothing where virtue is not