In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

In my integrity I'll wrap me up.