Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one.
Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.