It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Reason is not what decides love.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.