There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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.

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

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

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

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.