It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.