We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
How easy love makes fools of us.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.