Superiority is always detested.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.