Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.