I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.