God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.