None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.