“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”

“Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.”

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”

“There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.”

“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”

“It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.”
Ad vivendum velut ad natandum is melior qui onere liberior.

“I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.”

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”

“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”

“Of course a bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one — but it is a richer state.”