Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness

Obscurity brings safety.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.