All difficulties are easy when they are known.
A table-full of welcome!
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
Let each man do his best.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.