Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.