Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

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.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

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.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.