There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

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

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.