All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
The superfluous is very necessary.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.