Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.