The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
Malice blunts the point of wit.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.