Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.