It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.