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.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.