Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.
People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.