Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.