"The game is up."

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"

"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."

"Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way."

"But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."

"Truth is subject to too much analysis."

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."

"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him."