God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.