Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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!
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.