To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.