It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
The sunset glow of self-possession.
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.