That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.