I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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?
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.