“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

“Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.”

“People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.”

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?”

“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”