Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

As night falls, every joy glows brighter.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.