There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.