Perfect Reason Avoids All Extremes.

They [zealots] Would Have Everybody Be As Blind As Themselves: To Them, To Be Clear-sighted Is Libertinism.

Birth Is Nothing Where Virtue Is Not

All The Satires Of The Stage Should Be Viewed Without Discomfort. They Are Public Mirrors, Where We Are Never To Admit That We Seeourselves; One Admits To A Fault When One Is Scandalized By Its Censure.

When You Model Yourself On People, You Should Try To Resemble Their Good Sides.

It Is Madness Beyond Compare To Try To Reform The World.