The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.