Your praises will become your wages.
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
I count only the hours that are serene.
All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.
I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.