Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
Defeat serves to enlighten us.
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.
Conscience is wiser than science.