Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
To speak of love is to make love.