Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
Haste is of the Devil.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
