Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.Edmund Burke
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.Montesquieu
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.Francis Bacon
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.Fyodor Dostoevsky