The only things you learn are the things you tame
It is absurd to ape our betters.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
Familiarity breeds contempt.
We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
In a crisis, give help first and then advice.
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.
I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!
His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.