The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.