Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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?

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.