People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.