Ceux qui s'appliquent trop aux petites choses deviennent ordinairement incapables des grandes. - François de La Rochefoucauld

Those faults are always pardonable that we have the courage to avow.

Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l’amour.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much, yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirised can join in the satire. It is unfortunate to have a satirical turn without affecting to be pleased or without loving to jest.