It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

I will maintain it before the whole world.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.