If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.