There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.