He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.