Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.