He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.