It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

To keep is more important than to make friends.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.