To keep is more important than to make friends.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

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

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.