Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Fantastic shadows of birds
Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.