People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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?
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.