Let the worst come to the worst.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.