I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Too great haste leads us to error.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

But it is not reason that governs love.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.