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.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.