Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.