Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

A man of refined taste and judgment.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.