One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
Shaw writes as if it were always midday.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.