Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.