One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.