Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.