But it is not reason that governs love.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.