A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.