Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

Leave your luck while still winning.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

There is no desert like being friendless.