Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

The smallest errors are always the best.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.