A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.