Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.