Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.