I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.