No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.