Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

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.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

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.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

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