Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

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.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.