I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

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

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.