Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.
Silence is a still noise.