Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Every savage can dance.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
