Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?
For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.