To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
There is no desert like being friendless.
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.