The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
