A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
