Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.