Deference and intimacy live far apart.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
It is a long road from conception to completion.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.