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.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Hear, see, and be silent.

There is no desert like being friendless.

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.