A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Diplomacy is living in state.
Many are called but few get up.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.