I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?