Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Only the young die good.