Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.