It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

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.

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

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