There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.