Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.