Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.