Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.