"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage."

"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."

"Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable."