Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Music and dance are all you need.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.