The smallest errors are always the best.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.