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.

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 true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

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.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.