It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.