It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.