Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

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.

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.