Give your host a little something when you leave; little presents are little courtesies and never offend.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

To be always fortunate and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.