I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?