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.
How easy love makes fools of us.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.