You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.