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.

There is no desert like being friendless.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.