unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.