It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

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

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

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.