Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Good families are generally worse than any others.

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.