After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Some people always know the price, but not the value
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
I live in terror of not being misunderstood.