How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.