Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

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.