The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.