Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

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

Evil report carries further than any applause.