Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.