When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.