Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?