Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.