Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without ….

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that h….

Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and….

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace..

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to….

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness..

I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at ….

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great..

Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul ….