Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.