The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.