You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.