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.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.