We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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.
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.