It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

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

Hurry is the weakness of fools.