Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.