“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.”

“Speak on, but be not over-tedious.”

“And a man's life's no more than to say "One."”

“[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”