Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.