“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age”

“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues”

“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone”

“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel”

“Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty”

“It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all”