To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.