Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.