Those who can command themselves command others.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.