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.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Truth is for the minority.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one.