There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.