Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

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

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.