Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.