Who has more leisure than a worm?

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.