It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
A woman always has her revenge ready.
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.