The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

Always act as if you were seen.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.