It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
No one can ever help loving anyone.
Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!
It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.