She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.
The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.
The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.