The more merit, the less affection.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

Truth is for the minority.