To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.