When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.
It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.