All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.