Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

What is true belongs to me!

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.