In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
“What is a butterfly? At bestHe's but a caterpiller drest.The gaudy Fop's his picture just.”
“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.”
“On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.”
“Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.”
“He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.”
“Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.”
“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
“Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.”
“Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.”
