Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.