Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.