Jesting Is Often Only Indigence Of Intellect.

Eloquence Is To The Sublime What The Whole Is To The Part.

A Modest Man Never Talks Of Himself.

It Is Difficult For A Proud Man Ever To Forgive A Person Who Has Found Him At Fault, And Who Has Good Grounds For Complaining Of Him; His Pride Is Not Assuaged Till He Has Regained The Advantages He Lost And Put The Other Person In The Wrong.

Mockery Is Often The Result Of A Poverty Of Wit.

The Same Common Sense Which Makes An Author Write Good Things, Makes Him Dread They Are Not Good Enough To Deserve Reading.