“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.”

“Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.”

“Faults that are rich are fair.”

“A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.”