The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.