 Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. |
| Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. |
| He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. |
| There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. |
| When desire dies, fear is born. |
| It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. |
| Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. |
| There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. |
| Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. |
| Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. |
| Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. |
| One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. |
| True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Topics: Friendship |
| The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. |
| We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend. |
| True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. |
| Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. |
| Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. |
| Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. |
| Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. |
