Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

Everybody's got their troubles.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.