It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
Success rarely brings satisfaction.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.