If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Circumstances alter cases.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.