Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.