Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.