Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

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

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.