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.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.