Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.