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.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.