We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
Many priceless things can be bought.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.