We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.