Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

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.

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.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

Hidden evils are most dreaded.

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.