You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Cultivate those who can teach you.