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.

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

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

Know the great men of your age.

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.