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.

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

Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.