I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first