Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

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.

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Hear, see, and be silent.

No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.