 Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. |
| Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. |
| Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. |
| Work is the price which is paid for reputation. |
| Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. |
| Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. |
| Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. |
| A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. |
| It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. |
| It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. |
| To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. |
| Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. |
| Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. |
| Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. |
| The wise does at once what the fool does at last. |
| At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing. |
| A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. |
| Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. |
| I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. |
| He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. |
