To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.