Deference and intimacy live far apart.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.