Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.