It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

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.

But it is not reason that governs love.

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

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.