Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
It is a long road from conception to completion.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.