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.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.