Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
If you judge, investigate.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.