Virtue is the first title of nobility.

The envious will die, but envy never.

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

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

I will maintain it before the whole world.