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

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

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.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.