“Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.”

“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”

“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”

“My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”