Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.