To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.