The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

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

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

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