Circumstances should never alter principles!
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.