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.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.