A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.