It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.
Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.