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

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.