Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.
Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.