The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
The secret of happiness is curiosity
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.